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jrepin writes "Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. These updates are the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.10 series. Over 100 recorded bugfixes include improvements to the Personal Information Management suite Kontact, the Window Manager KWin, and others. KDE's Development Platform has received a number of updates that affect multiple applications."

a) Compositing doesn't always make things slower. The basic "use the GPU to move 2D surfaces"-idea is sane, though the effects layered on top might not be.b) Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is disabled by default on annoyingly many distros these days.

I'm sorry, but how are even the brightest eye candies going to significantly and annoyingly slow down your desktop on your quadcore CPU with any of today's GPUs? I'm all for performance, but at some point it really is "fast enough", after which I welcome the wobbly windows.

On my netbook I just disable all effects, on my desktop I leave most of them. Not hard, only have to do it once, so rare I don't even really recall what I did, I just recall that I did it and it worked. I'm on my netbook now, and without a doubt it performs better than my work Windows 7 machine that's supposed to be more powerful.

But yes, it is loaded with crap, I'll tell you which dual core it is here in a few when I get there, and it's only got 2GB or RAM, just like my netbook. Unlike my netbook it takes 15 to 20 minutes to become useful once I start the thing up.

It is slower than KDE, even in a clean state. This thing came with WIndows 7 starter, KDE is still faster.

BTW, my Atom is a dual core 1.8 Ghz 32 Bit, the work system is 3 Ghz Core 2 Duo E8400. Yes the IT department loads it down with crap, but in all fairness if you don't load a Windows system down with crap, like virus scanners and firewalls, Windows harasses you with popups until you do. My KDE install is fine without the crap. I've even disabled the pieces of junk I called out, like Nepomuk and Akona

If you really want me to put Windows back on this system just to satisfy your jealous undersized Windows boner you can forget it. As far as the work systems concerned I don't want the Secret Service showing up so I've given as much info on that as I intend to.

I thought that's what System Settings/Desktop Effects were for. Under General you have "Animation Speed" from Instant to Extremely Slow. Under the Andvanced Tab you have Scale Method of Crisp, Smooth, or Accurate. There is a difference to be seen.Also, under System Settings/Style/Fine Tuning you can set Graphical Effects to depending upon Resolution and CPU. A little experimentation often brings about quite dramatic results.

No UI changes. The UI is perfect as it is. It still is very sluggish and could benefit from performance tweaks. It still has security issues all over the place. It still is buggy. But for the most part its now the main interface to Linux and that comes with a certain level of responsibility.

Make the most stable KDE possible. Follow the Mozilla model. Release often.